OCR H418 & H018 · AQA 7162 · 2026 AND 2025

A-Level Law grade boundaries.

Official raw-mark thresholds for both boards, taken straight from OCR's and AQA's own published tables. Plus what the numbers tell you about the papers, which most boundary pages leave out.

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Sources: OCR June 2026 (published 19 August 2026) and June 2025 (14 August 2025); AQA June 2026 (13 August 2026)

OCR H418 · A Level

Overall qualification, year on year.

From 2026 OCR publishes two overall rows, because Paper 3 and Paper 4 are alternatives.

OCR A Level Law H418 — overall, out of 240
Component	Max	A*	A	B	C	D	E
June 2026 — Option A (01+02+03)	240	180	152	122	92	63	34
June 2026 — Option B (01+02+04)	240	181	153	123	93	64	35
June 2025 — all options	240	175	147	118	89	60	32

OCR H418 components — June 2026, each out of 80
Component	Max	A*	A	B	C	D	E
H418/01 — Legal system and criminal law	80	68	57	46	35	24	13
H418/02 — Law making and the law of tort	80	55	47	38	28	19	10
H418/03 — Nature of law and human rights	80	57	48	38	29	20	11
H418/04 — Nature of law and contract	80	58	49	39	30	21	12

OCR H418 components — June 2025, each out of 80
Component	Max	A*	A	B	C	D	E
H418/01 — Legal system and criminal law	80	62	52	41	31	21	11
H418/02 — Law making and the law of tort	80	57	48	39	29	19	10
H418/03 — Nature of law and human rights	80	56	47	38	29	20	11
H418/04 — Nature of law and contract	80	56	47	38	29	20	11

AQA 7162 · A Level

AQA, June 2026.

AQA is out of 300, and Paper 3 has two options, so your overall boundary depends which you sat.

AQA A Level Law 7162 — overall, out of 300 (June 2026)
Component	Max	A*	A	B	C	D	E
7162A — Option A	300	212	188	156	125	94	63
7162B — Option B	300	221	195	162	129	96	63

AQA 7162 components — June 2026, each out of 100
Component	Max	A*	A	B	C	D	E
7162/1 — Paper 1	100	74	67	55	44	33	22
7162/2 — Paper 2	100	72	64	53	42	31	20
7162/3A — Paper 3, Option A	100	66	57	48	39	30	21
7162/3B — Paper 3, Option B	100	73	64	53	42	31	21

OCR H018 · AS Level

AS boundaries, both years.

OCR AS Level Law H018 — overall, out of 128
Component	Max	A	B	C	D	E
June 2026	128	89	76	63	50	37
June 2025	128	74	62	50	38	27

Read this before you use any of it. Grade boundaries are set after every paper has been marked, so they change every series and nobody can tell you next summer's in advance. A higher boundary means candidates performed better, not that the grade got harder. Always check your own result against the official table for your series and board: OCR and AQA. If a grade matters, a remark is your route, not arithmetic on this page.

The interesting part

What these numbers actually tell you.

An A is 63%, not 80%. On OCR in 2026 an A was 152 out of 240. A C was 92 — just 38%. On AQA a C was 125 out of 300, about 42%. If you have been marking yourself against a school percentage you have been far harsher than the examiners, and more students give up on this subject over that misunderstanding than over the content.

OCR Paper 1 jumped six marks in a year. The A* on the legal system and criminal law paper went from 62 in 2025 to 68 in 2026. Boundaries are set after marking, so the 2026 cohort scored materially better on Paper 1. It is the paper everyone revises hardest, which makes it the paper where dropping marks costs you most, because the rest of the cohort is not dropping them.

Paper 2 moved the other way. Law making and tort fell from 57 to 55 for an A* in the same series. One paper got easier to score on and another got harder, in the same summer. That is exactly why one year's boundaries are a guide and never a target.

The boards are not interchangeable. An OCR A* took 75% of the marks in 2026; an AQA A* took 71%. That does not make AQA easier — different papers, mark schemes and cohorts — but it does mean you cannot read across from one board to judge your own. Check the code on your paper.

Grades move in single questions. On OCR the gap between adjacent grades is about 30 marks across three papers, so roughly ten marks per paper. That is one problem question answered properly. Nobody needs to rewrite everything; they need to stop losing the same ten marks.